June 25, 2004
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G-Mixxx
Woohoo, I got Gmail. And I have an extra invite... I really liked the way they marketed this service. Really built the demand up.
And can you believe those bastards at Microsoft?
"Microsoft Corp.'s MSN on Thursday said it upgraded its free Hotmail email service to offer 250MB of free storage, 10MB attachments and free virus scanning/cleaning. The service offers calendar and calendar sharing functions and a 30-day account expiration. MSN is competing against recent service upgrades from Yahoo! and Google's fledgling G-mail service. MSN is also offering Upgraded Hotmail Extra Storage/Hotmail Plus for $19.95 per year. The package offers users 2GB of storage and the ability to keep 20MB attachments. It also enables users to eliminate graphical ads, includes client access through Outlook and yearly account expiration. MSN says the Extra Storage product matches Yahoo!'s offering but trumps the rival on attachment size. MSN plans to offer a phased rollout, first offering Hotmail users globally free virus cleaning by early July. Hotmail Extra Storage users will be migrated to Hotmail Plus in late July. Free Hotmail users in the U.S., UK and Japan will be offered the ability to upgrade to the new 250MB Hotmail free offer. In November, MSN will begin upgrading the 7 million MSN Premium users, and approximately 80 million free Hotmail users in the U.S., UK, Japan, Australia, Canada, France, Germany and Spain markets on a rolling basis."
Why couldn't they do this 5 years ago???
This new book I'm reading is really interesting. A lot of what the authors say is something that I have believed in for a while. Basically, they're saying that advertising has a much smaller effect than PR and that building a new brand requires strong PR initiatives. In China, there are literally hundreds of brands coming in every year. Newest brands in town?
Asia's first Thomas Pink store, Tiffany is finally opening a store in Shanghai, Dolce & Gabbana, Home Depot, basically everyone and their dog. And yo mama. Wouldn't it be funny if I were able to work yo mama into every post?
I met a girl last night. Her name is Vicious. I wonder if she's vicious in bed? Rawrrr!
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hey, u don't know me very well...but I've been reading your posts
I am coming to shanghai in two weeks, I was wondering if you have any recommendations on where i can go for fun? like shopping (not too expensive) and places to eat etc....thanks, greatly appreciated.
sorry what's your email I couldn't find it on your xanga
hey, how'd you get a g-mail account? i want one!!
btw, if you haven't given that invite away yet... i'll be your best friend!!
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